What was your most expensive jumper?

[aleggett321]

Red velvet fairy wrasse. Heard the splash and the egg crate cover rattle. Looked everywhere around the tank and no fish. Nowhere in the tank either. Looked into replacing it but couldn't do the $100 right now. A week later I opened the door to the far end of the sump and there it was swimming around. Would have taken a lucky flop out the back side of the canopy and a hard bounce off the wall to get there.

[moondoggy4]

Hawaiian Dragon Morey bad heater boiled my small tank while cleaning the bigger tank he jumped, I got out of the hobby for 14 years.

[SEEYA7]

Good Question! Mine was a Brown Powder Tang! It was a large Tang. I don't know why, but I feel really bad about my Diamond Blenny, it was doing so good at keeping the tank clean.

[nanotank]

Pair of platinums same night committed mass suicide. This was a few yrs back when pairs were over $500

[ChadRaay86]

Nothing expensive yet, I played the no net game on my QT tank and lost a True Perc out of a half inch slot at the back of my light canopy. 21+ days of QT down the drain

[xxjrealxx]

Originally Posted by 64Ivy

Crosshatch triggerfish. Landed in a bucket of bleach and dirty filter socks. Obviously, no lunch for me that day.

Please explain details please

[r-balljunkie]

a couple of johnsoni wrasses......

[jaa1456]

My male Japanese lunate wrasse, I was switching tanks and placed him in a temporary 29 gallon, with a DIY net top. I took the top off for a few minutes to do a little maintance, came back into the room and he wasn't in the tank. Thought he was hiding, after a day of not seeing him I looked all around the tank and no body. I was sitting in a chair trying to think where he might be, then I saw a little pair of eyes in my live rock tub staring at me. He mad a jump out of the tank and almost 3 feet away into the tub, I guess he had it all planned out.

[mkbtank]

Wow! Great stories. I feel much better knowing others have lost nicer fish than I. The Flame wrasse who inspired this thread is still nowhere to be seen btw.

[Sugar Magnolia]

A percula clownfish and a Scott's fairy wrasse.

[cnguyenl]

My melanurus wrasse jumped out while I was standing in front of the tank. He might not get lucky again if he keeps jumping out...lol!

[bamf25]

I have lost a lyretail anthia, a coral beauty, and one other to jumping (drawing a blank on the last one. The worst part is the coral beautie almost never jump, and the anthia somehow found a hole in a covered tank.

[randomfishguy85]

I had a blue line angel jump through a crack in the eggcrate and land right on top of it. By the time i seen him he was stiff as a board. 140 dollars down the drain and my favourite fish dead.

[sucker_fish]

Only had 3 fish jump out, a normal occelaris , a snowflake clown, and a starry Blenny. All 3 survived. I did lose a six line wrasse that was hiding in a rock I had removed, he apparently wiggled out of the rock and got stepped on...he was evil though

[kabe87]

I had 3 jumping comiting suicide... 3 clownfish

I had a salarias jumping (I think it had something to do with some voltage licking) but was able to save him and fixed the issue. He still lives happy and fat

[sslak]

Nothing...I have a canopy. Sorry for your loss though...hope it turns out he was just hiding.

[footballdude2k3]

picasso clown, sucked, was 3 years ago

[DCG1286]

Achilles Tang (when I had my 150 and was out of town ... ... ... of course. Only tang that I have ever had that managed to escape a tank.)

Not a pricey fish but I had a Potter's Wrasse for a long time that one day escaped from my 120 ... I was heartbroken over that one. One of my favorite fish.

[64Ivy]

Originally Posted by xxjrealxx

Please explain details please

Well, she was an extremely 'anxious' specimen to begin with, continually swimming back and forth over the length of the tank while her male counterpart would usually just seek cover, presumably to stay out of her way. Had this been her only negative trait, I might've been able to accept it but, coupled with the fact that she would also eat a tank mate alive every once in awhile, convinced me to return her to my LFS for...well, for ANYTHING really. So on the morning I went to catch her, I found that she had jumped out during the night, bounced over the side, and landed squarely into a bucket of Clorox that I used to clean my dirty filter socks; probably a 1:1000 shot.

I think the male did it.

[origreefer]

Originally Posted by robs.mark

I had a flame hawk jump into the overflow, the plumbing went through wall into thegarage, then through another wall into my fishroom where i found him getting chased around my a 3" peacock mantis that used to live in the fuge. It must have felt like the worlds best super fun water slide!

haha, had a similar experience with a black/white clown. Came home from work and it was missing. Redox had't changed at all so I knew he didn't die, but still couldn't find him. Fast forward 8 months, I'm cleaning the overflow prefilter on my 200g and I see a flash of white in the black overflow. There he is happy as a clam living in the torrential 2" of water at the bottom.

[ggsteve]

Saltwater would be a blueheaded wrasse. Freshwater was an 18" silver arowana down the overflow.

[Humu Humu]

My poor melanarous wrasse. First he jumped into the overflow. Suffice to say, getting him out scraped him up pretty severely on the encrusted coral in the overflow (my hands as well). He seemed Ok back in the tank, didn't even seem bothered. But the next week, he was on the floor and I didn't get him back in the tank in time. He was a really pretty fish. Miss him.

[dublo8]

Originally Posted by Cstaricansrfer1

Blue spot jawfish. Pretty depressing.

+1 my favorite fish that I always wanted and not 24 hours later he was carpet jerky. I found him the same day I finished building my screen top. Oh well, live and learn.

[Stickboy97]

many many years ago in college, I had 2 leopard sharks and 1 decided college life wasn't for him. I was extremely sad for that!

[cklayko]

Blue spot jawfish